Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by clarkmoody 4309 days ago
While we're at it, I would love to see the "scandal-gate" terminology disappear as well.

According to Wikipedia[1], the "war on crime" was used by Hoover in the '30s.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_as_metaphor

1 comments

Heh. When I commented, I had intended to say the same thing about *-gate :)